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                                 <listitem><para>Controls whether to
                                 split up journal files per user. One
 
                                 <listitem><para>Controls whether to
                                 split up journal files per user. One
-                                of <literal>login</literal>,
-                                <literal>uid</literal> and
-                                <literal>none</literal>. If
-                                <literal>login</literal>, each logged-in
-                                user will get his own journal
-                                files, but systemd user IDs will log
-                                into the system journal. If
-                                <literal>uid</literal>, any user ID
-                                will get his own journal files
-                                regardless of whether it belongs to a
-                                system service or refers to a real
-                                logged in user. If
+                                of <literal>uid</literal>,
+                                <literal>login</literal> and
+                                <literal>none</literal>.  If
+                                <literal>uid</literal>, all users will
+                                get each their own journal files
+                                regardless of whether they possess a
+                                login session or not, however system
+                                users will log into the system
+                                journal. If <literal>login</literal>,
+                                actually logged-in users will get each
+                                their own journal files, but users
+                                without login session and system users
+                                will log into the system journal. If
                                 <literal>none</literal>, journal files
                                 are not split up by user and all
                                 <literal>none</literal>, journal files
                                 are not split up by user and all
-                                messages are instead stored in the single
-                                system journal. Note that splitting
-                                up journal files by user is only
-                                available for journals stored
+                                messages are instead stored in the
+                                single system journal. Note that
+                                splitting up journal files by user is
+                                only available for journals stored
                                 persistently. If journals are stored
                                 persistently. If journals are stored
-                                on volatile storage (see above), only a
-                                single journal file for all user IDs
+                                on volatile storage (see above), only
+                                single journal file for all user IDs
                                 is kept. Defaults to
                                 is kept. Defaults to
-                                <literal>login</literal>.</para></listitem>
+                                <literal>uid</literal>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                                 limiting is applied per-service, so
                                 that two services which log do not
                                 interfere with each other's
                                 limiting is applied per-service, so
                                 that two services which log do not
                                 interfere with each other's
-                                limits. Defaults to 200 messages in
-                                10s. The time specification for
+                                limits. Defaults to 1000 messages in
+                                30s. The time specification for
                                 <varname>RateLimitInterval=</varname>
                                 may be specified in the following
                                 units: <literal>s</literal>,
                                 <varname>RateLimitInterval=</varname>
                                 may be specified in the following
                                 units: <literal>s</literal>,
                                 violated when systemd-journald is
                                 started, the value will be raised to
                                 percentage that is actually free. This
                                 violated when systemd-journald is
                                 started, the value will be raised to
                                 percentage that is actually free. This
-                                means that if before there was enough
-                                free space and journal files were
+                                means that if there was enough
+                                free space before and journal files were
                                 created, and subsequently something
                                 else causes the file system to fill
                                 up, journald will stop using more
                                 created, and subsequently something
                                 else causes the file system to fill
                                 up, journald will stop using more
-                                space, but it'll will not removing
+                                space, but it will not be removing
                                 existing files to go reduce footprint
                                 either.</para>
 
                                 existing files to go reduce footprint
                                 either.</para>
 
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToKMsg=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToConsole=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToSyslog=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToKMsg=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>ForwardToConsole=</varname></term>
+                                <term><varname>ForwardToWall=</varname></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Control whether log
                                 messages received by the journal
                                 daemon shall be forwarded to a
                                 traditional syslog daemon, to the
 
                                 <listitem><para>Control whether log
                                 messages received by the journal
                                 daemon shall be forwarded to a
                                 traditional syslog daemon, to the
-                                kernel log buffer (kmsg), or to the
-                                system console. These options take
-                                boolean arguments. If forwarding to
-                                syslog is enabled but no syslog daemon
-                                is running, the respective option has
-                                no effect. By default, only forwarding
-                                to syslog is enabled. These settings
-                                may be overridden at boot time with
-                                the kernel command line options
+                                kernel log buffer (kmsg), to the
+                                system console, or sent as wall
+                                messages to all logged-in users. These
+                                options take boolean arguments. If
+                                forwarding to syslog is enabled but no
+                                syslog daemon is running, the
+                                respective option has no effect. By
+                                default, only forwarding to syslog and
+                                wall is enabled. These settings may be
+                                overridden at boot time with the
+                                kernel command line options
                                 <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_syslog=</literal>,
                                 <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_syslog=</literal>,
-                                <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_kmsg=</literal>
+                                <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_kmsg=</literal>,
+                                <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console=</literal>
                                 and
                                 and
-                                <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_console=</literal>.
+                                <literal>systemd.journald.forward_to_wall=</literal>.
                                 When forwarding to the console, the
                                 When forwarding to the console, the
-                                TTY to log to log to can be changed
+                                TTY to log to can be changed
                                 with <varname>TTYPath=</varname>,
                                 described below.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 with <varname>TTYPath=</varname>,
                                 described below.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
                                 <term><varname>MaxLevelSyslog=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>MaxLevelSyslog=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname></term>
                                 <term><varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname></term>
+                                <term><varname>MaxLevelWall=</varname></term>
 
                                 <listitem><para>Controls the maximum
                                 log level of messages that are stored
 
                                 <listitem><para>Controls the maximum
                                 log level of messages that are stored
-                                on disk, forwarded to syslog, kmsg or
-                                the console (if that is enabled, see
-                                above). As argument, takes one of
+                                on disk, forwarded to syslog, kmsg,
+                                the console or wall (if that is
+                                enabled, see above). As argument,
+                                takes one of
                                 <literal>emerg</literal>,
                                 <literal>alert</literal>,
                                 <literal>crit</literal>,
                                 <literal>emerg</literal>,
                                 <literal>alert</literal>,
                                 <literal>crit</literal>,
                                 written to disk and forwarded to
                                 syslog. Defaults to
                                 <literal>notice</literal> for
                                 written to disk and forwarded to
                                 syslog. Defaults to
                                 <literal>notice</literal> for
-                                <varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname> and
+                                <varname>MaxLevelKMsg=</varname>,
                                 <literal>info</literal> for
                                 <literal>info</literal> for
-                                <varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname>.</para></listitem>
+                                <varname>MaxLevelConsole=</varname> and
+                                <literal>emerg</literal> for
+                                <varname>MaxLevelWall=</varname>.</para></listitem>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>
                         </varlistentry>
 
                         <varlistentry>